[
UK
/pˈɔɪnjənt/
]
[ US /ˈpɔɪnjənt/ ]
[ US /ˈpɔɪnjənt/ ]
ADJECTIVE
-
keenly distressing to the mind or feelings
poignant anxiety -
arousing affect
his gratitude was simple and touching
the homecoming of the released hostages was an affecting scene
poignant grief cannot endure forever
How To Use poignant In A Sentence
- Demos they may be but these Hazlewood rarities are rounded, rustic country songs: lustrous and lustful, quirkily and dryly humorous, yet poignant stories from the other side of love.
- The truly poignant moments were those that followed. Times, Sunday Times
- Poignantly stated and played, the two guitarists spread out and cover the space.
- The film is not attempting poignant comments on reality - it aims at grace and good humour.
- I only played three carefully considered notes with intuitive regard to choice of rhythm, tempo, dynamics - using a poignant interval, the minor sixth resolving to the perfect fifth.
- Her tragic death, poignantly captured on grainy mobile telephone footage, has flashed around the world. Times, Sunday Times
- Jewish life is poignantly described in Wiesel's journal, "The Jews of Silence".
- It is especially poignant that he died on the day before the wedding.
- The poignant note lay in a bed of roses on an ivory white casket that featured two joker playing cards. The Sun
- There seems something so poignant about it all. Times, Sunday Times